CVE-2025-8885 (GCVE-0-2025-8885)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-12 09:13 – Updated: 2025-09-12 11:09
VLAI
Title
Possible DOS in processing specially formed ASN.1 Object Identifiers
Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java bcprov on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA bc-fips on All allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdenti... https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdentifier.Java . This issue affects BC Java: from 1.0 through 1.77; BC-FJA: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.2.5, from 2.0.0 through 2.0.1.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/S:P/R:U/RE:M/U:Amber
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java Affected: 1.0 , ≤ 1.77 (maven)
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Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA Affected: 1.0.0 , ≤ 1.0.2.5 (maven)
Affected: 2.0.0 , ≤ 2.0.1 (maven)
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Credits
Bing Shi
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